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Not asking for the 5 best, but most people will probably draw from among the best for their picks. If you were to choose 5 fighters (past or present) from each division to showcase the diversity of high level fighting styles in MMA, who would you pick?
HW -
Fedor - sambo and all around well-roundedness
Werdum - BJJ and Muay Thai
Crocop - kickboxing
(Eco)reem - cautious kickboxing with good grappling
Cain - wrestling and relentless pressure
LHW -
Jones - unique striking, MMA wrestling and all around godliness
Shogun - aggressive Muay Thai based striking and beauty
Machida - karate
Couture - wrestling and dirty boxing
Volkan - magic. (or Rumble - black magic)
MW -
Anderson - next level flashy striking
Hendo - wrestling and basic looking but effective striking
Rockhold - kickboxing and ground game
Bisping - volume striking
Romero - bouncing around inactively and then exploding, and Olympic wrestling lol
WW -
GSP - very well-rounded safe fighting
Maia - BJJ
Lawler - Just Bleed striking
Palhares - very aggressive BJJ/submissions
Woodley - chess (or Nick Diaz, seems like a sin not to have a Diaz brother)
LW -
BJ - the complete package
Khabib - wrestling/grappling
Conor - unique striking
Pettis - flashy striking and submissions
Bendo - master of split decisions (or Nate Diaz if we keep Woodley for WW, gotta have a Diaz somewhere)
FW -
Aldo - Muay Thai and TDD
Edgar - wrestling and boxing
Holloway - high output striker
Mendes - wrestler with hands of stone
Oliveira - highly aggressive BJJ
BW -
Cruz - god of point fighting
Barao - power striker with a ground game
Faber - master of chokes
Lineker - 5'2 KO artist
Cody - boxing
FLW (getting hard) -
Mighty Mouse - super complete fighter
Dodson - low output but dangerous striker
Cejudo - Olympic wrestling
McCall - grappling and the art of not ever making it to a fight
Horiguchi - striking and demonstrating the UFC's No Love of Asians
WFW -
Cyborg - vicious power striker
Coenen - BJJ
Carano - kickboxing
Budd - kickboxer turned lay and pray wrestler
...um, nope. (or Gabanator Holloway - standing short and proud)
WBW -
Ronda - judo and submission goddess
Tate - wrestling and BJJ
Nunes - nasty power striker with good grappling
Holm - ish ish ish ish ish
Bethe - sheer athleticism
WSW -
Joanna - high volume striking
Gadelha - BJJ
Esparza - wrestling
Rose - dynamic striking and subs
Calderwood - submission defense and ability to rise to the occasion
...that took a lot of work, which fighters would you take out or sub in (and yes, some of those #5 picks were tongue in cheek).
HW -
Fedor - sambo and all around well-roundedness
Werdum - BJJ and Muay Thai
Crocop - kickboxing
(Eco)reem - cautious kickboxing with good grappling
Cain - wrestling and relentless pressure
LHW -
Jones - unique striking, MMA wrestling and all around godliness
Shogun - aggressive Muay Thai based striking and beauty
Machida - karate
Couture - wrestling and dirty boxing
Volkan - magic. (or Rumble - black magic)
MW -
Anderson - next level flashy striking
Hendo - wrestling and basic looking but effective striking
Rockhold - kickboxing and ground game
Bisping - volume striking
Romero - bouncing around inactively and then exploding, and Olympic wrestling lol
WW -
GSP - very well-rounded safe fighting
Maia - BJJ
Lawler - Just Bleed striking
Palhares - very aggressive BJJ/submissions
Woodley - chess (or Nick Diaz, seems like a sin not to have a Diaz brother)
LW -
BJ - the complete package
Khabib - wrestling/grappling
Conor - unique striking
Pettis - flashy striking and submissions
Bendo - master of split decisions (or Nate Diaz if we keep Woodley for WW, gotta have a Diaz somewhere)
FW -
Aldo - Muay Thai and TDD
Edgar - wrestling and boxing
Holloway - high output striker
Mendes - wrestler with hands of stone
Oliveira - highly aggressive BJJ
BW -
Cruz - god of point fighting
Barao - power striker with a ground game
Faber - master of chokes
Lineker - 5'2 KO artist
Cody - boxing
FLW (getting hard) -
Mighty Mouse - super complete fighter
Dodson - low output but dangerous striker
Cejudo - Olympic wrestling
McCall - grappling and the art of not ever making it to a fight
Horiguchi - striking and demonstrating the UFC's No Love of Asians
WFW -
Cyborg - vicious power striker
Coenen - BJJ
Carano - kickboxing
Budd - kickboxer turned lay and pray wrestler
...um, nope. (or Gabanator Holloway - standing short and proud)
WBW -
Ronda - judo and submission goddess
Tate - wrestling and BJJ
Nunes - nasty power striker with good grappling
Holm - ish ish ish ish ish
Bethe - sheer athleticism
WSW -
Joanna - high volume striking
Gadelha - BJJ
Esparza - wrestling
Rose - dynamic striking and subs
Calderwood - submission defense and ability to rise to the occasion
...that took a lot of work, which fighters would you take out or sub in (and yes, some of those #5 picks were tongue in cheek).